48,897. I support them [CND] because everything sane and sensible and quiet that we do is absolutely ignored by the press. And the only way we can get into the press is to do something that looks fanatical ... The worst possibility is that human life may be extinguished and it is a very real possibility. Very real ... Many hundreds of millions of people dying in agony, only and solely because the rulers of the world are stupid and wicked. I can’t bear it. (Nuclear & CND) Bertrand Russell, interview BBC 1959

48,952. Like every British leader since the Second World War Harold MacMillan was convinced that independent nuclear capacity was the only way to preserve Britain’s world power status ... In exchange for a new generation of missiles for Britain he agreed to offer a Scottish sea-base for American Polaris submarines ... The new Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was fuelling the anti-establishment across Britain. (Nuclear & Atomic & CND & Cold War) Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain

49,080. During the 70s the Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons grew into a world-wide force. At the same time the new industry of nuclear power was growing. It was a carbon-dioxide free source of constant energy. But from the outset the industry was controversial. It was secretive. The extent of Britain’s worst nuclear accident in 1957 at Windscale in Cumbria was concealed, and subsequent leaks there and at other plants were covered up. (Nuclear & Greenpeace & Accident & CND) What the Green Movement Got Wrong, 2010

67,647. The [secret anti-CND] coalition also produced leaflets distributed for them by the Conservative Party. Just part of a great volume of material flooding out from a variety of organisations. The biggest contribution of all came from the Ministry of Defence, which could draw on an annual information budget of £16,000,000. Duncan Campbell, Secret Society: The Secret Constitution, Secret Government Committees, 1987

49,112. In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare. (Nuclear & CND) J B Priestley

67,648. Freedom From War: The United States’ Program For General And Complete Disarmament In A Peaceful World. John F Kennedy, policy presented to United Nations September 1961

49,117. The news today about ‘Atomic bombs’ is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men’s hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope ‘this will ensure peace’. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we’re in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders. (Nuclear & Atomic) J R R Tolkien 1945

67,649. When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. Niccolo Machiavelli

67,759. CND has its biggest rally ever: two hundred thousand marched in London; another six hundred thousand in Germany. (Cold War & Nuclear & CND) 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse

98,281. ‘Nobody thought we were going to come out of it alive. Most kids of my age didn’t expect to make it through the sixties.’ (1960s & Morality & Nuclear & CND) Steve Gibbons, The Ugly’s vocalist

120,829. In the most famous anti-nuclear protest ever seen in Britain, thousands of women spent much of the 1980s and beyond protesting against the presence of American cruise missiles here at Greenham Common. What even they didn’t know along with the residents of nearby Newbury was that the British government’s own scientists had warned that this was the riskiest of eleven possible sites to put the weapons. (Nuclear & Protest & CND & Risk) Document: The Ghosts of Greenham, BBC Radio 4 2007

120,830. London would be very unlikely to escape such a disaster. (Nuclear & Protest & CND & Risk) ibid.